I agree! always enjoy her videos and look forward to them

Awe thanks so much! 🥰 glad you enjoyed the video! This was a particularly fun one for me to make-it was a really great week on the road for sure!

Totally agree!

I agree. I think she’s authentic and her sweet soft voice, positive attitude, the scenery and everything is so calming.

I liked Mount Rushmore. Never heard anything about a trail though. I enjoyed the night viewing also and loved the information on each person that became president.

I mean…🤷🏻‍♀️ ((I doubt you’d be disappointed 😝))

Awe thanks so much Austin! Your comments always bring the smiles right back my way too ☺️ so thank you!

Truth!!!

How did you get your van registered in South Dakota? Don’t you have to be a resident or have a physical address to get your van registered there.

@@DOTCOMO7 I want to know how too

Awe thanks 🙂 idk about all that but I super appreciate your kind words 🥰 ((humble…maybe 🤔 or just awkward and nerdy 🤓😅😂))

@@annauncharted all of the above sister. But thats what makes u a special person in life journey.

Dang right it has! 💪😝 South Dakota was it for me for sure! 🥰

It was a particularly extra great week on the road for sure 🥰 ((it was more jostly than I initially perceived it to be as well 😅))

As I was driving across SD…taking in the wide open spaces….jamming to tunes and headed for uncharted (to me) territory-you’re absolutely right in that it felt like my energy did a kick flip 180 something or other 😅 (lol I’m not a skateboarder-but maybe someday…I think you get it haha 🛹 😝🤙)

Welcome to Washington 💕

Can you tell me where the dispersed camping is near Mt. Rushmore?

Leave MT Rushmore parking lot and take a right. There are 3 locations off this main road , if you pass the campground and small lake on the left you’ve gone to far. There are signs posted at the turnoffs for these areas.

What are the other 2?

@@TheNotMeTube Montana and Idaho. Gets real hard to pick after that!

Thank you so much! I love Vancouver and the surrounding area! I almost made it to V-island last summer but never quite got there! Maybe this summer 👀 we shall see!

@@annauncharted Great, hope you do make it. Would be great to meet you. I'll buy you lunch here inSooke.

I think you’re going to love this area of SD when you get here ❤️ sending much love to you Mel

@@annauncharted Thank you…❤️

haha oh myyy goodness 😅 you got me rolling 😂 ((also you’re absolutely right-so many worse things to be 😝))

Awe thank you thank you thank you!!! 🥲🥰

🥰🌻🥰🌻 you are many times welcome!

I hear you 💛 the first time I read the book Lakota Woman-I sobbed and sobbed. I didn’t talk about it in this video-and maybe I should have but you’re right in that this particular area holds incredible amounts of both beauty and pain 🤍

Agreed 💯%, broken treaties 😢

@@annauncharted I don’t know if you should have talked about it. Your channel, to date, is about your joy in discovery and self reliance. The carving on the mountain was done, and the land around it preserved, before you and I were even born. I don’t get to travel often, but when I do, there’s always something about the natural environment that was or is being destroyed. When I visited The Olympic National Park in 2001, I saw entire mountains clear cut down to bare earth. Nothing held the soils on the mountains. You could see it being blown away by winds and washed off into adjacent lakes, suffocating the fish. I asked locals about it. They said, it’s the only way timber harvesting can be done. I differed emphatically and pointed to hundreds of years of profitable timber harvesting in Maine, and that it is often the lumber industry in Maine who helps write laws about forest management, which does NOT allow any clear cutting. It’s simply easier and quicker to clear cut, but clear cutting a whole mountain will completely eliminate any further harvesting for well over a century. And it’s ugly, I said, so how does it help you keep tourist businesses open? I strongly suggested they gather with other businesses and lobby to make timber companies on the west coast follow the east coast methods. But if I had a channel back then, is it the topic I should speak of? My journal makes mention of this, but mostly covers other aspects of my trip, which was profoundly spiritual and serendipitous…and yet, this image and my conversation is what my mind held on to most clearly twenty + years later. That and women who thought I was nuts to travel alone as I was doing. Haha! I think it’s very hard and courageous to take on issues as a creative person. It’s a hard job being the poop-carrier for society, because pointing out the dumb, the hateful, the sad, and the short-sighted often draws unwanted responses. Only you can decide if an issue of any kind should find a way into your videos. In my case, I know I’m too heated about some topics to ever make a positive difference. On other topics, I’m too heartbroken about it to find any words. So in my mind, it’s a matter of calling, readiness and skill that’s required for taking on issues. Travelers learn so much about the world and people. Most people only see the dream of travel or the potential for basic challenges like missing a flight, or having something stolen. But many don’t realize that travelers see people and the natural world presenting ethical issues over and again. It changes us. I think every traveler needs to speak of it somehow, but should it be public? I think it’s a very personal decision. And I still think focusing on the beauty and the people was beautiful and joyful. And that’s important too. It’s your life and your legacy too. 💗

It was also sacred to the Cheyenne, Kiowa, & Crow until the Ogala and Brule kicked them out in 1794. So, who has more rights to the Black Hills?

@@annauncharted perfect woman I'm 46 live in Washington state and always wanted to live on the road traveling the United States or live up in the mountains next to a river or a lake

Definitely should’ve folded in my side mirrors first 😅 I know for next time!

I’m happy to hear that my video this week was able to lift your spirits even just a little…💜 I know it’s been a really heavy time as of late and sometimes it’s hard to know where to go with all the pain and sorrow that’s felt. I’m right there with you and I’m sure many others are too. Sending you much love and support from afar 🤍

@@annauncharted 🥰💜